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Monday, August 1, 2011

Getting Up Close with My Quilting - Feathering in the Borders and More!

Last week Monday's Post was Over All Feathering. Today let's take a look at Feathering in borders and in the center of blocks. Free Style Feathers fill a border of a quilt beautifully!

The feathering in these borders is complimented with swirls. The feathering is in both borders, but they are more visual on the light border. I changed thread colors for the light and dark areas.

The feathering on this plain quilt really dresses it up. Made it look a little fancier.

My customer made this quilt three times and I quilted each one with very similar feathering. I quilted with a light color thread in the light areas and with a green on the dark areas of the quilt. What a wonderful Christmas gift for her daughters!

This quilt was the first quilt I tried feathering in the border, way back in 2004! I have learned a lot since then. Everyday is a learning experience.

Feathering in a circular fashion in the solid areas on this quilt gives it an interesting motion. I quilted a double wiggle line in the narrow border and then more feathering in the outside border.

Each Monday, I choose a different style of my free style quilting. You can click on the link in the top side bar to see past posts of my quilting. There is also a link in the side bar to my photo gallery. I quilt customer's quilts five days a week and I take photos of my quilting to share. I am very blessed to have job that I love... Hope you are having a great start to your week!MarciaP.S. Dont' forget to sign up with me if you are a Wantobe to win quilting prizes over at Sew We Quilt - Stasch Manicure. Wantobes win on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. If you are already a quilter stop over and see what you can win on Tuesdays and Thursdays... Prizes everyday! Click on the links in the sidebar.

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I am a Free Style Long Arm Quilter. I quilt customer's quilts full time - 5 days a week. My days are filled with hours of freestyle quilting - creating wonderful designs on customer's quilts! I truly love stitching!!! Every quilt is a new adventure! It is a joy to watch the quilt tops transform into a truly unique quilted quilt!!! - I live and breathe quilting 24/7. I am so lucky to have a job that I love! I photograph quilts and all the colors in my life! The blog I started first is my blog about quilting, sewing, and my quilting business. My website is www.craftysewing.com My personal quilting blog is http://craftysewingandquilting.blogspot.com/ Lunch Looks Like a Quilt to Me is my Photos of Food Blog. http://lunchlookslikeaquilttome.blogspot.com/ I welcome you to follow all 3 of my Blogs!

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